An unspoiled river is a very rare thing in this Nation today. Their flow and vitality have been harnessed by dams and too often they have been turned into open sewers by communities and by industries. It makes us all very fearful that all rivers will go this way unless somebody acts now to try to balance our river development.
Lyndon B. JohnsonFour. That's what I want you to remember. If you don't get your idea across in the first four minutes, you won't do it. Four sentences to a paragraph. Four letters to a word. The most important words in the English language all have four letters. Home. Love. Food. Land. Peace. . .I know peace has five letters, but any damn fool knows it should have four.
Lyndon B. JohnsonI won't have you electioneering on my doorstep. Every time you get in trouble in Parliament you run over here with your shirttail hanging out.
Lyndon B. JohnsonOur understanding of how to live with one another is still far behind our knowledge of how to destroy one another.
Lyndon B. JohnsonLaw is the great civilizing machinery. It liberates the desire to build and subdues the desire to destroy.
Lyndon B. Johnson